Method and system for collecting, managing and reporting feedlot data and feed additive consumption data

Abstract

Methods and systems for collecting, managing and reporting feedlot data and feed additive consumption data are provided. More particularly, methods of determining effects of feed additives on livestock and methods of determining a number of doses of animal health product provided to livestock are disclosed. One method of determining effects of a feed additive on livestock includes steps: determining feed additive consumption by correlating feed consumption data to additive levels contained in feed; and matching feed additive consumption to a live performance record, a harvest performance record, and/or an animal health performance record. In another embodiment, a method of determining a number of doses of animal health product provided to livestock includes steps: determining a total quantity of animal health product provided to the livestock; determining a dose amount for the animal health product; and dividing the total quantity of animal health product provided by the dose amount.

We claim: 
     
       1. A method of determining a number of doses of an animal health product that have been provided to livestock, the method comprising the steps:
 providing a processor; 
 providing a memory device; 
 inputting feed records including feed consumption data from a feedlot accounting system into the memory device, the feed consumption data corresponding to feed delivered to a plurality of feedlot pens including a first feedlot pen holding first livestock; 
 inputting feed ingredients including an animal health product level into the memory device; 
 having the processor determine a total quantity of animal health product provided to the first livestock by correlating the feed consumption data in the memory device to the animal health product level in the memory device; 
 inputting an intended dose amount for the animal health product into the memory device; and 
 having the processor divide the total quantity of the animal health product provided to the first livestock by the intended dose amount to determine a number of doses of the animal health product that have been provided to the first livestock. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the animal health product is at least one of a vitamin, a mineral, or a pharmaceutical. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the step:
 having the processor correlate a time period over which the total quantity of animal health product was provided to the number of doses of the animal health product that have been provided. 
 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the step:
 having the processor compute, based on the number of animals comprised in the first livestock and the number of doses of the animal health product that have been provided to the first livestock, a number of doses per animal. 
 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the step:
 having the processor compare at least one of a live performance record, a harvest performance record, and an animal health performance record for the first livestock in the first feedlot pen to at least one of another live performance record, another harvest performance record, and another animal health performance record for second livestock in a second feedlot pen; 
 wherein the second livestock in the second feedlot pen do not receive the same intended dose amount of the same animal health product provided to the livestock in the first feedlot pen. 
 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the intended dose amount is obtained from a product label for the animal health product. 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 5 , further comprising, based on the comparison, providing information for determining what types and amounts of animal health product to give to livestock. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the following steps, performed by the processor:
 computing the number of doses per animal in the first livestock; and 
 comparing at least one of a live performance record, a harvest performance record, and an animal health performance record for the first livestock to at least one of another live performance record, another harvest performance record and another animal health performance record for a second livestock in a second feedlot pen, the number of doses per animal provided to the second livestock being different than the number of doses per animal provided to the first livestock. 
 
     
     
       9. The method of  claim 8 , further comprising, based on the comparing, providing information for determining what types and amounts of animal health product to give to livestock. 
     
     
       10. A computer implemented method of determining what types and amounts of animal health product to give to livestock, the method comprising:
 receiving with a second computing system feedlot data transmitted by a first computing system, the feedlot data including:
 consumption data corresponding to feed delivered to a plurality of feedlot pens including a first feedlot pen and a second feedlot pen, each of the plurality of feedlot pens including one or more animals, the first feedlot pen receiving a first feed and the second feedlot pen receiving a second feed, at least one of the first feed and the second feed including an animal health product; 
 a first number of animals in the first feedlot pen; and 
 a second number of animals in the second feedlot pen; 
 
 computing, for the first feedlot pen based on the first feed and the first number of animals, a first animal health product dose; 
 computing, for the second feedlot pen based on the second feed and the second number of animals, a second animal health product dose, the second animal health product dose being different than the first animal health product dose; and 
 comparing, by the second computing system, at least one of a live performance record, a harvest performance record, and an animal health performance record, for an animal in the first feedlot pen, to at least one of another live performance record, another harvest performance record and another animal health performance record, for another animal in the second feedlot pen. 
 
     
     
       11. A computer implemented method as in  claim 10 , wherein the a first animal health product dose and the second animal health product dose are computed on a per animal basis. 
     
     
       12. A computer implemented method as in  claim 11 , wherein the a first animal health product dose and the second animal health product dose are computed on a per unit of time basis. 
     
     
       13. A computer implemented method as in  claim 10 , further comprising, based on the comparing, providing information for determining what types and amounts of animal health product to give to livestock.